A New Jersey data center has leaked thousands of gallons of diesel fuel, and it’s the latest example of Americans’ fears about the environmental threats of the AI buildout materializing.
Secaucus, New Jersey, officials are cleaning up a 5,000-gallon oil spill from an Equinix data center storage tank that began leaking last week, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection said in a statement released on Tuesday. The spill, which is now contained, flowed into an unnamed tributary of the Hackensack River, though it did not reach the river. A cleanup over the weekend removed “a significant portion of the fuel,” but the crew is still recovering fuel from the impacted areas of the creek. As of Monday, the crew cleaned up about 3,500 gallons of the spill.
